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CAIRO: Egypt’s flood season started in August and will continue for three months, and the torrent season is about to start, confirmed Mohamed El-Sebaei, spokesman for the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.
The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation continues to prepare for the torrent season and to deal with the floods, which have caused the Nile levels to rise significantly in recent days.
El-Sebaei said the ministry is monitoring daily the amounts of water arriving in Egypt and accumulating in front of the Alta Dam, noting that the Minister of Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Ati, has been in Aswan since yesterday to inspect the water facilities. water from the High Dam.
He said the torrential season is about to start in the fall to winter period, and the ministry is monitoring all the torrent, canal and drain networks to make sure they are ready to receive any volume of water and to preserve public property waters.
The ministry is preparing to face the torrents and rains that are expected during the fall and winter by preparing Lake Nasser, located behind the High Dam, which is one of the most important strategic points to contain the amounts of water coming from the Ethiopian plateau.
The Egyptian River Revenue Regulatory Committee, in its meeting headed by Abdel-Ati, reviewed the situation of the Nile flood, the procedures for monitoring, analyzing and evaluating its status, and the amounts of water expected to reach the end of stream. year 2021-2022.
According to a statement from the Irrigation Ministry, rainfall rates at the sources of the Nile are expected to begin to decline in late September.
Preliminary signs of the flooding showed that it is above average and that incoming waters during August and September are much higher than last year. It is still too early to make a final judgment on the type and size of this year’s flood.
Eman El-Sayed, head of the planning sector and head of the forecast center at the Irrigation Ministry, said the center works to calculate the rates of rainfall that fall in the countries of the upper Nile River until they reach the country on a daily basis. He explained that the latest technology is used to take satellite images and download mathematical models to determine how much rain falls and when it will fall.
El-Sayed added that the ministry holds two meetings each week to discuss the developments of the flood season, which has been confirmed more than once to be very high, one during the River Revenue Regulatory Committee meeting and the other during the Leadership Committee. meeting.
He noted the development of three scenarios to cope with a flood. If it hits 10 percent stronger power than expected, it will drain water as usual. If it arrives 50 percent stronger than expected, the excess will be treated through drains and channels and the Toshka spillway will be opened. If it is stronger than that, the country will declare a state of emergency, he said.
